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The Difference Engine. First computer ever.
Charles Babbage, an English mathematician and inventor, conceived the idea of the Difference Engine in the early 1800s. His motivation was to create a machine that could perform mathematical calculations automatically and accurately, without the errors inherent in manual calculations. The Difference Engine was designed as a complex mechanical device, comprising gears, levers, and cylinders,…
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So why the computers were made?
The reason we live in fear counting days before doomsday (technological singularity) is that the 19th century people just couldn’t wait any longer. Suddenly they got tired of doing stuff manually. Computers were created to automate repetitive tasks and perform complex calculations much faster and more accurately than humans could. This was important for scientific…
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“Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
Those were not the words of our beloved detective, but the first ever words spoken over the phone by Alexander Graham Bell to his assistant. Mr. Bell was fascinated by sound and communication. He worked tirelessly to create a device that could transmit speech over long distances, much like the way the telegraph transmitted coded…
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What hath God wrought or simply about the telegraph invention
The telegraph was a wonderful invention that changed how people communicated over long distances. It all began in the early 19th century when Samuel Morse wanted to find a faster way to send messages. He and his team developed a device called the telegraph, which used electrical signals to send coded messages through wires over…